Aleksander Schneider
As a boy, from 1987 to 1996, Alexander Schneider was a member of the acclaimed Dresdner Kreuzchor before going on to study singing in Berlin as a student of Peter Herrmann. He attended master classes of David Cordier, Jeffrey Gall and Peter Kooij and is now coached by the soprano Elisabeth Scholl. He made his debut in 1999 at the Neukoellner Oper Berlin in a Commedia per Musica by Johann Adolf Hasse, La Sorella amante. The Altus has sung with many well known ensembles which specialise in Early Music such as Cantus Coeln, Concerto Palatino, Collegium Vocale Gent, Akademie fuer Alte Musik Berlin, Absolut Ensemble New York, Rheinische Kantorei, Ricercar Consort, Saechsisches Vocalensemble, Sette Voci, Dresdner Kammerchor, Ensemble Amarcord and the Lauttencompagney Berlin. He has collaborated with numerous conductors such as Philipp Herreweghe, René Jacobs, Kristian Jaervi, Stephen Stubbs, Herrmann Max, Joshua Rifkin, and many others. Numerous CD- recordings document this work. Well-known artists like the harpsichordists Ludger Rémy and Mark Nordstrand or the Lutenist Ophira Zakai are his musical partners.